ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,442, issued on April 7, was assigned to NOVOZYMES A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark).

"Lipase variants and compositions comprising surfactant and lipase variant" was invented by Kim Borch (Birkerod, Denmark), Carsten Horslev Hansen (Vaerloese, Denmark), Jesper Vind (Vaerloese, Denmark), Marco Malten (Copenhagen NV, Denmark) and Svend Gunnar Kaasgaard (Skovlunde, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to lipase variants and compositions comprising (i) at least one surfactant and (ii) at least one lipase variant of the invention. Furthermore, the present invention relates to methods of using the compositions."

The ...